Company Description
Meritis is a consulting firm specialized in the digital transformation of organizations, founded in 2007 by Sébastien Videment.
Initially based in Paris, it has expanded across the regions and now has a presence in France's largest cities: Sophia-Antipolis, Montpellier, Nantes, Bordeaux, Lyon, Aix-en-Provence, Lille, and even Lisbon, Portugal, since 2023.
Our experts support clients from various sectors with all their digital transformation needs across many areas of expertise: Finance, Software Engineering, Cloud & Infrastructure, Data, Digital Transformation, and Cybersecurity.
Guided by values of excellence, humility, kindness, and closeness, the firm, with more than 900 employees, has been awarded 5 times in the Great Place To Work® ranking. It is experiencing very strong growth and aims to reach €100M in revenue in 2024 and surpass the symbolic milestone of 1,000 employees.
We take pride in staying close to our employees and supporting them individually, regardless of their role in the company. Certified Great Place To Work since 2013, our approach to workplace well-being goes well beyond a simple label. Our employees speak about it best: https://www.glassdoor.fr/Avis/Meritis-Avis-E1163008.htm
Job Description
Within a Front Office development team, you will take part in the evolution and maintenance of a trading and risk management application covering a wide range of financial products.
This critical application is used worldwide by the structured products, warrants, flow, and rates desks and is a central tool of the Front Office.
You will join the Paris-based development team, working in direct contact with trading teams and quantitative engineers.
Missions include:
- Taking part in the development and evolution of the trading application, used daily by traders to view, calculate, and monitor the risks of their positions;
- Integrating and interfacing the platform with other Front Office systems, including pricers, Market Data databases, and real-time feeds;
- Implementing new features in response to the needs of traders, structurers, and research teams;
- Contributing to the performance, stability, and reliability of the platform in a highly demanding technical environment;
- Interacting directly with Front Office users (traders, quants, structurers) to ensure the relevance and responsiveness of developments;
This internship offers a complete experience at the heart of financial markets, in a development team close to trading, on a critical application used internationally.
Qualifications
- Final-year student of an engineering school or university program (Bac+5) with a specialization in computer science, software development, or financial engineering;
- Strong skills in Java development (or object-oriented programming) and an understanding of distributed architectures;
- Strong interest in capital markets, trading applications, and risk;
- Good command of real-time environments, databases, and versioning tools (Git, Jenkins, etc.);
- Analytical mind, rigor, autonomy, and excellent ability to communicate with Front Office users;
- English B2/C1
Additional Information
- Tailored career paths (career development, adapted training, mentoring…);
- Choice of your assignment and personalized support throughout your career;
- An environment that encourages learning: certifying training, e-learning, meetUps, coding competitions, career development paths, etc.;
- Be part of expert communities that share their knowledge and experience within our competence centers;
- A friendly environment with many social events (annual party, seminars & team building, lunches and afterworks…);
Your differences are our strengths. That is why Meritis is committed to diversity and non-discrimination. All our roles are accessible to people with disabilities. If you have a question or believe you are a victim or witness of discrimination, you can contact ethiquegroup@meritis.fr .